Photo Gallery

By Martin McKay, on January 20th, 2019

One of our most popular features is the Photo Gallery. You can go to it from the link on the ‘Pages’ menu to the right of this screen.

And it’s nice to see that it can inspire some creativity, such as this tweet from the BTP Firearms Unit. Social media has been abuzz with the 10 Year Challenge of late, so they thought they would better that and have a One Hundred Year Challenge. You can our original picture in the Vehicles gallery.

Well we thought we'd go one better than the 10 year challenge, here's our 100 year challenge. Southern Railway Police vehicle early 20th century vs BTP ARV 2019. Credit to https://t.co/YA8aSqP9Jp for the historic photo. Looks like the naughty btp_swoop has photobombed us as again pic.twitter.com/Af5gl3WuLl

You can follow the BTP Firearms Unit on Twitter at @BTPFirearmsUnit, and thanks to them for crediting us in their tweet.

And while we are on the subject of photos, BTPHG member Phil Trendall found this photo recently. It depicts a LMS police sports day.

Phil says: “This was taken from a postcard. The inscription reads ‘Police Wives on the Bottle, 1937. The wives of policemen of the LMS Railway are seen feeding their husbands from baby bottles during a novelty race at the sports meeting at Wembley’. Things have changed a lot since 1937, not least the definition of having fun!”